Sentences with phrase «made ideologue»

The character is portrayed confidently by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, no spoiler alert there, but the movie that surrounds him feels more like a college lecture on national security rather than a dramatization that could have shown us specifically what made the ideologue's pursuit of government secrets — namely, the NSA's tracking and collecting of mass amounts of user data by tapping into cell phones — so disturbing.

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Chisholm Pothier, who was Flaherty's first federal spokesman and worked with him for about seven years in all, said his boss — despite being an ardent tax cutter — was never the right - wing ideologue his partisan critics made him out to be.

1) they are brain - dead ideologues, 2) there is a lot of money to be made off of stupid people looking for a scapegoat 3) if Limbaugh can make millions flaming the fires of ignorance and hatred, why ca n`t we?

One reason that Rand Paul is such an effective ideologue is that he makes an effort to affiliate with conservatives.

Hitchens never found religion but did evolve beyond his youthful devotion to Trotsky, though he retained a dogmatism that made him seem an ideologue without an ideology.

«I tried to get Nick Clegg to come and talk to us, because I thought he was a great model for Trebell, this ideologue who made this fatal error of voting for tuition fees,» he says.

And voters should know that he is far from the liberal crusader some of his critics, then and now, hard - line ideologues themselves, make him out to be.

«Mrs May is making a great mistake if she allows her policy to be dictated by the Brexit ideologues.

Speaking before Cameron's Tory conference speech in which he lambasted the Labour leader as a «security threatening, terrorist - sympathising, Britain - hating» ideologue, Norman suggests that voters should be trusted to make their own minds up.

Surely a big - government ideologue like de Blasio isn't going to make real, meaningful trims to close a major gap.

Ben, a conservative ideologue, perhaps, knew all along that Chauncey was an idiot, and knew he would make the perfect chief executive puppet for his people to pull the strings on, and be at their beck and call.

Sometimes, however, the main friction is within a party, mostly when strong - willed ideologues on either party's fringe make trouble for its centrists.

Otherwise, we are left with words to make the gut churn one way or another according to the designs of nefarious ideologues rather than nurturing intelligent discussion and making the mind work.

Here's what I do nt» get: There seems to be no shortage of loud political commentary from contrarians, as seen on various op - ed pages, yet when a scientist from the consensus community makes any suggestion of reducing emissions, an obvious implication from what the science says, it's a big deal and they are labelled as activists or ideologues.

Scientists have been way too passive and way too accomodating to statements made by liars for hire, dishonest ideologues, and those denialist cheerleaders who tell the ditto - heads what to think and say.

In previous comments you've attempted to make the argument that you and the Skeptical Science team are not Left ideologues.

Allowing the conference to pretend they are making «progress» on this stupidity only serves the interests of the ideologues that have made chicken little - ism their current career path.

How would that make me an «ideologue» in your sense?

The other side — who expect big temperature jumps and catastrophic consequences — are accused of being ideologues, or interested in making an alarmist case in order to further their own careers as climate change activists, or authoritarian monsters who are less interested in saving the planet than in forcing their own left - wing economic order on the rest of the world.

I don't think much of Walsh's piece either, but that doesn't make all sceptics retarded ideologues as you suggest.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

State legislatures across the country passed more than 60 anti-abortion measures in 2017, reflecting extreme ideologues» commitment to making it difficult, if not impossible, to access abortion.

But the fact that fatherlessness is common — moreover widely accepted as normal by certain ideologues and, by trickle - down effect, in certain cultural enclaves — makes it no less tragic a loss for every father - deprived child.

Others retain their enthusiasm by becoming extremist ideologues and proponents of bad science, taking only cases in which they will not encounter these conflicts and suspending their judgment and integrity in the interests of churning cases and making money.